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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-06-25
COAST ITEMS.

big Indian fandango is to come off neal
Colfax soon.
Mrs. Langtry's Oakland residence has moi
been secured.
A baby at Ukiah died Wednesday from
drinking coal oil.
The great Willard Hotel at Portland, Or.
is to be completed.
trans Pacific cable is projected from
Vancouver to Australia.
A bull fight is to come off tomorrow al
the Agricultural Park at Los Angeles.
DR.. G. H. Davis, of Salem has been ar.
rested on charge of malpractice.
Jim Ash, a Los Angeles barkeeper, was
shot in the left side by his wife, Tuesday.
The wheat crop in the Willamette Valley
promises to be the largest raised in many
years.
of cherries, one half the amount they expect
to can.
A belief prevails that the hostile Apaches
have stolen back to the reservation and are
in hiding.
A freight train was wrecked near Perris.
San Diego county, Monday night, and the
engineer fatally injured.
The cost Of repairing the Heartford is de.
clared to be beyond the limit permitted by
law, and she will be sacrificed.
Superintendent Price informs the Tusca.
rora paper that fifty good miners will be
needed in that camp in few days.
Rodgers. shot by Policeman Grady Of San
Luis Obispo while resisting arrest, has as.
tonished his physician by recovering.
George Brum6eld of Healdsburg has sued
his son to quiet title to land. which he says
he decided to son twenty years ago. on &C
count Of threats.
A gang Of young horse thieves. the eldest
Of which is twenty-five years old, has been
operating about Albuquerque. The mem.
bers are sworn ''by the gtittering blade, "
daggers being flashed around blazing camp
FIRE.
Fifteen ostriches have Just been hatched
from a nest OF seventeen eggs at the Mount
ain Fair View ostrich farm in San Diego
county. This is the best record ever made
in America. There are eighty birds at the
farm now.
A clew is claimed to have been obtained
at Riverside of the missing Mrs. Alfred
Brooks, who Is said to have recently come
into possession at Denver Of $1,000 900, and
whose disappears has been a subject Of
much speculation of late.
Forest fires which started near Cottonwood
Shasta county, Tuesday have done immense
damage The whole country is reported
swept clean from the public road to the Sac
ramento river, distance of FIVE miles. Flf-
teen miles. OF fencing belonging to John
Barry has been burned.
The Secretary Of the Navy has ordered
the Iroquois from the South Pacific Station
to San Francisco for repairs. The report ef
the Board Of Survey shows that the deck
and deck beams OF the Iroquos have become
so rotten thai II-inch rivot-g aft cannot
be used at all, aud that the check OF the for
ward pivot-gun has become rotten, SO thar n
is unsafe to FIRE.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-06-25

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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-06-25
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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
The Presidents Position.

Philadelphia Ledger: Quite a number
of ingenious (but not very mgenuous)
writer's have been trying to force Presi-
dent Cleveland into declaration that he
will not accept nomination for second
term So far the essay has been no more
successful than any other attempt 10 drive
or caiole him into unwise or improvident
expressions. He occupies precisely the
right position in all this matter. He Is go.
ing right straight along in a frank, manly
way to give the country an honest and ef-
fective executive government. 1t that
shall do HIM so much damage among the
politicians-ihe leaders-the bosses-the
kind of people who believe in the free dis
tribution Of the spoils-as to enable them
to overreach the people, the President is
prepared to meet that result and accept the
situation. Ii it shall have the opposite
effect of giving him such strength with the
people as to enable them to override the
politicians OF every kind, then he should
not permit himself to be placed in the atti-
tude of refusing the people in advance by
any unnecessary expressions at this time.
And in point of fact he don't seem to be
inclined toward any precipitate action in
the premises-which is right.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Oleomargarlne.

Commissioner Colman is soon to pub
fish report setting forth the result OF
scientific investigation of the manufac-
ture of spurious butter, and showing its
deleterious properties as an article Of
food.
In reply to the objection urged to the
law for the supervision and taxation OF
the spurious article, the following ex.
tract from the commercial column of
the N. 0. Times Democrat, is signif-
cant:
That government supervision, taxa
tion and license on the manufactured
article would force prices of genuine
butter out of reach of the poorer classes
was all mistake as was demonstrated,
after the Inauguration of the new law.
In fact, at times lower prices have ruled
this year than last when there were no
restrictions placed on the sale of imita-
tion butter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

HE Anti-Poyerty Society, of which
DIR. McGlynn is President, and Henry
George, Vice-President, held their first
public meeting at Chickering Hall, New
York City, on the lst inst. The appear
ance of DIR. McGlynn on the platform
excited great enthusiasm. Among other
things, he said: Religion will never be
right until We shall see Democratic
Pope walking down Broadway with a
stove-pipe hat on his head, carrying an
umbrella under his arm. In my opin
ion, that man will be the greatest of
Popes. Instead of having men to carry
him on their shoulders, he viii have the
laugh ON them, for he will carry them in
his heart"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Hon. L. q. C. Lamar.

While Mississippians may not be for
ward in urging the nomination of Hon.
L. @. G. Lamar, our own favorite son,
for the Vice-Presidency, they will feel a
natural pride in supporting him if he
should be indicated as the preference of
the Democracy elsewhere. OF this we
are sure. If ability is the test, he has
not superior in the party; and if it be
deemed advisable to put a Southern
man on the ticket, he will bring more
strength to it than any other from
this portion of the Union. And now,
when there is no longer sectional
question, why should not a man be
placed on the ticket from that part of
the country which will give three
fourths of the votes necessary to elect
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
The Long and Short Haul Clause to
be Enforced.

The power of the Commission to sus-
pend the long and short haul provision
OF the Interstate Commerce law, as well
as the propriety of its action in doing
so, has been generally conceded, but it
must be apparent now that what was in
tended by the Commission mainly as
means to obtain breathing spell"
before exercising the most delicate duty
imposed on it, has had the effect of de-
moralizing all the railroad companies in
the Union.
Many of the railroad companies, had
made all necessary arrangements to con-
form strictly to the requirements of the
law-some in good faith and others in a
way to provoke and harass shippers: but
when the Commission granted tempo
rary suspension of the long and short
haul clause, all the railroad companies
seem to have assumed that the law was
to be nullifed by permanent suspen-
sion of its provisions in all cases, for
the identical reasons which were urged
before Congress when the law was on its
passage, and which were then repudi-
ated.
The St. Louis Repubh cans Washing
ton correspondent, after an interview
with a gentleman "who has had oppor-
tunity for confidential conversation with
members of the Commission" predicts
that the Commission will within a very
short time after its return from its
Southern trip, make public the deliber-
ate conviction which it has reached, that
it would be against the public interest
to suspend the long and short haul pro
visions according to the method hereto
fore adopted; and that the Commission
will issue an order providing for the
termination, on the same date, of all the
suspensions already granted.
The correspondent further states thai
it was made quite plain to the Commits
sion in the arguments in behalf OF the
transcontinental railroads that the pro
cess of granting suspensions withou
reference to the schedule of rates il
operation on the railroads seeking sus
pension, puts communities at intermedi
ate points wholly at the mercy of tn
roads.
| The plan which it is said the Commits
sion will adopt in future is good one
1t is to require the railroad companie
to make their schedules without an.
authority in advance, to charge lowe
rate for the long haul than for tn
short haul, so that if there are to be an
suspensions hereafter they will follo'
and not precede, the making of scheC
ules.
The power conferred en- the Commits
sion to suspend the long and short hau
clause should be exercised only i
exceptional cases. The declaration q
the law is against discrimination, and
represents the judgment of Congress o
the subject, which the Commission mus
be governed by. That it has been veste
with discretion to suspend the rule i
certain cases does not relieve it froI
duty to follow the rule ordinarily, whic
we think the Commission intends to d.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04


HE CLARION is pleased to note a
disposition on the part of the Presidents
OF our State Colleges and leading schools
to have their annual catalogues printed
at home; and home Offices have learned
to figure very close on such work in
order to keep it within the State. THE
CLARION Book Department has alreadv
printed the catalogues of the A. & M
College and Jackson College, and has
now in press those of the Chamberlain
Hunt Academy, Whitworth College. the
State University, and the Industrial Tn.
stitute and College, at Columbus. There
are several Offices in Mississippi well pre-
pared 70 do this class of printing, and in
deed all other printing that the public
may require, in as good style and As
cheaply as it can be done in any other
State in the Union; and when III. fact
becomes more generally known. thosa
Who have printing to be done win verv
1e?srsiIy govern themselves accord.
fagly+ sv'1
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

Recent Orders Of the Railroad Com
mission.
At the meeting Of the Railroad Com
mission last week, among other things
had and done ware the followino.

At the meeting Of the Railroad Com
mission last week, among other things
had and done were the following:
The petition of the citizens of Marion,
Lauderdale county, for an order requir-
ing the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to erect a passenger depot at
Marion was considered and granted;
Mr.. A. r. Wall representing the citizens,
and Mr.. McLaren, the Superintendent,
and Mr.. Russell, Assistant Solicitor,
representing the railroad company. The
order requires that passenger depot
shall be built within sixty days.
The Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad
Company and the Yszoo and Mississippi
Valley Railroad Company were each
ordered to erect passenger depot at
Jackson. The Commission has been en-
deavoring for months past to secure the
cooperation of the railroad companies
in building Union Passenger Depot,
and thought at one time that it had
succeeded, but the Illinois Central Com
pany broke up the arrangement by re-
fusing to take part in it.
Acting as the Board of Control of the
Pen itentiary the Commissioners ap-
proved an extension Of the suitcase of
E. NJ. Yerger, who has ninety-one con-
victs engaged in levee building in Goa
homa county. These convicts were in
the possession of j. p Withers, and
were transferred to Yerger. They de
clined to renew or extend the suitcase
to J. p Mcdonald & Co., railroad con-
tractors, which expires Hay /, and
ordered that the convicts be returned
on that day to the lessees-the Gulf and
Ship Island Railroad Company.
After May l, there will be only one
sub-lease-that to E. NJ. Yerger fol
levee work. The remainder of the con.
victs, exclusive of those at the walls
are engaged in the construction of the
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad; there
being now over 200 in Harrison county
and about 100 in Pontotoc.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
r. ] HILL, |
The STATE.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Papo-
la county. Hon. A. L. Roane, Judge.
w. S. Chapman and P. G. Chapman,
for the appellant.
T. NJ. Miller, Attorney General, for
the State.
r. J. Hill was indicted for the muir
der of one Henry Brown. Brown was
wounded by a stab in the breat on Tues
day, and died from its effects on the fol-
lowing morning. On Sunday, the day
before his death, justice of the peace
was sent for, and Brown made state
ment which was taken down by the
justice. This statement was offered by
the State as the dying declaration of
Brown. and objected to by the defen-
dant. The jury retired and the State
introduced evidence to support the in
PRODUCTION of the statement. Mrs.
Brown, the widow of deceased, testified
that ON Sunday short while before the
statement was made, her husband said
that he was going to die, and not get
well. DIR. n. G. Knox testified that he
saw deceased while the statement was
being made, and that Brown was in a
very critical condition, "and thought
that he would live but short while.
unless there was great change" This
statement was made about u m. The
defendant then showed by several wit
nesses that during the afternoon of that
day Brown expressed the hope that he
would get well, and by others that he
expressed the belief that he would not
get.well. The defendant further showed
that deceased had often said that there
was no hell or hereafter, and all the
punishment a man got was in this
world" The jury were brought in and
the court admitted the statement as the
dying declaration of Brown, over obiec
ton. The State then offered in evidence
the written testimony of the defendant,
r. ]. Hill, given voluntarily in his own
behalf in his preliminary examination
before the justice of the peace, he being
charged by affidavit with the murder
of Brown. This testimony was admit
ted, over objection by defendant 1t
was as follows: "Mr. Brown came over
to my house on Tuesday morning about
daylight; came after some water
asked him how they were getting along
working for Major McCullar. He said,
pretty well, and he went out of his gate
with a bucket of water. / asked him
about something he said about giving
me good beating He said, by God,
will vet if you fool with me. told him
he had threatened to kill me. He said
he did not say he would kill me.
l told him could prove it. He asked,
who by. said by Jim Eubanks- He
then picked up his bucket aud / told
him / did not like for any man to run
over me In any such style as that. He
turned around to me and said, by God,
if you don't like it just come out here
and can satisfy you. He started to-
wards me, pushing up his sleeves when
he saw me come. He turned to get a |
stick and reached down towards the
ground, but did not get it. | got my
knife out. He put his rigtt hand in |
his pocket and held it open with his left, |
and came towards me and 1 went towards |
him with my knife in my hand, and then
cut him, advancing face to face, and /
cut him one time-n The defendant Of /
tered the same evidence in relation to
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

The summer schools of Monteagle As.
sembly open July 6, and will contine
six weeks These schools are thorough
ly equipped, and offer superior advan-
tages to teachers desiring greater eff
cheney in their work. The Assembly
programme includes lectures by many
of the ablest thinkers and speakers in
the country. As an economical health
resort, Monteagle is not excelled.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
SUPREME co URT CASES.
october rerm-Iss6.

A. J. WHEELER,
V.
The STATE
Appeal from the Circuit Court of
Copiah county. Hon. I. ]. Wharton,
Judge.
r. S. Morrison, for the appellant.
T. NJ. Miller, Attorney-General, for
the State.
a. J. Wheeler was indicted for selling
whisky without license in violation of
local act in relation to Copiah county,
passed by the Legislature In 1854. On
the trial he moved to quash the indict-.
ment and then, after conviction, he
moved to arrest the judgment because
the act under which he was indicted
and convicted had been repealed. Both
motions were oyerruled and Wheeler
appealed. The further facts necessary
to be stated will be found in the opinion
of the court.
ARNOLD, j., delivered the opinion of
the Court.
The sale of liquor in Copiah county
was regulated by local act passed in
convicted of a violation of this statute.
After the indictment was found, but
before appellant was tried, an election
was held in Copiah county under the
local option act of 1856, which resulted
against the sale of liquor in the county.
The local option act prescribes penalties
for the violation of its provisions, and
after excepting from its operation local
L l.. L IL IN
places where certain institutions of
learning are located, it declares in effect,
that all laws on the subject shall be
superseded in any county, after the
election contemplated by the act, is
ordered and held in the county, but
there is no saving clause in the act in
| reference to the prosecution or punish
| ment of offenses committed under prior
| laws.
The scheme proposed by the local
| option act, is that if an election held
under it. in any county, shall go IN
favor of the sale of liquor, such sales
shall thereafter be regulated by the Code,
with its amendments, as modified by
the local option act, but if the election
shall go against the sale all local acts
but those excepted shall be thereby
repealed and the local option act shall
supersede all other laws on the subject
in the county. The result of the cleo
ton in Copiah county, repealed the
local act of 1884, and the local option
act thereby became the law, in that
county, in regard to the sale of liquor
The proposition is too plain to admit OF
discussion, that after the repeal of s
law no penalty can be enforced or pun
isbment inflicted, for violation of its
provisions committed while it was il
operation, unless provision be made fol
that purpose. league V. The State, 3!
Miss, 516. Cooley on Const. Linn. All
note. Bish. on Stat. Or. Sec. III.
| Judgment reversed and prisoner DIS
charged.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

IN last issue we stated that Hon. II.
q. Williamson was a candidate for State
Senate from Kinds county. We intend
ed, of course, to say Hon. G. NJ. Will
hanson, one of the efficient Representa-
tives in the last House. Hon. H. c.
Williamson is now a resident of Kinds,
but he will be so occupied for some time
in advancing cash on improved farm
property that he would not have time to
assume further legislative honors, if ten
dered.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

M. SCFNABELE, the French Commissary
who was arrested by the German police
near the frontier, has been released, and
has returned to France, though the
Germans claim that he was in lawful
custody, and refer to his release as an
evidence of the good will and neighbor-
ly feeling of Germany.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04

Hon. Ben BuTTERwoRTH, Republi-
can nj. G. from Ohio, speaking of the
Interstate Commerce law says: "The
Interstate Commerce law has come to
stay. If every Congressman who will
vote for its repeal next winter were a
coon could string them all on yard
stick. The long and short haul clause
viii be modified. The measure is a
perfectly proper one"
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Unequal Taxation.

The scheme of the Constitution is that
every dollars worth of property in the
State shall bear its proportion of the
taxes; but the laws fall short of carry
ing it out.
Our attention is directed to this mat
matter just at this time, by the follow
ing reflections which we find in the Tate
County Record:
1t is great hardship for the citizens of
Tate to pay taxes on land at $3.50 per acre,
while other counties of almost the same
character of soil pay less than one-half
this amount. We do not believe that any
legislature can be prevailed upon to pass
an act creating State Board of Equaliza-
ton, and can see no remedy, except for our
people to take care of themselves as best
they can without doing violence to their
consciences.
We recognize the fact that it is diff
cult to get any relief from inequalities
like those of which the Record COM
plains, and yet it ought not to be con-
iessed that it is impossible'to do so.
1t is grossly unjust that individuals
and communities are compelled to pay a
penalty for honest swearing, and yet it
is plain that they do. The case from
Tate county proves that they do. We
believe that if the property of all the
counties in the State was assessed as
fairly as that of Tate, the next Legisla-
ture could easily reduce the State tax a
mill or more. We say this because we
know that much of the land of the State
is assessed at figures which fall far short
of its true value, and because there is
very little of it whose value is fairly
represented on the assessment rolls.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
The Calhoun Monument.

In our issue of March 16, we gave the
history of the fund accumulated by the
ladies of South Carolina for the erection
of a monument to her greatest states
man, John G. Calhoun. The monu-
ment, which cost upwards of fifty thou
sand dollars, vas unveiled on Goth ult.
About twenty thousand persons wit
messed the ceremonies, which were of
the most imposing and impressive char
acter. The statue was draped with both
the State and the national colors, which
were drawn away by six little children,
while thirty.fv young ladies and misses
stood around as sponsors-most of them
relatives of Mr.. Calhoun. Six baby I'M
vailers pulled the ropes under the super
vision of the attending young ladies.
The babies were Julia Calhoun, great
granddaughter of the statesman; Viii.
liam Lowndes Calhoun, his great grand.
son; r. Putnam Calhoun, Jr., great
grandson, and great grand nephew Of
Gen. Putnam; Sadie Anerum, great
grand niece; Floride Calhoun Pickens
and Floride Paine Johnson But the
great event of the occasion was the
mastery and eloquent Grafton of Missis
sippi's gifted and honored son, the Hon
L. @. c. Lamar. Its delivery occupied
about two hours, and it was received
with the deepest attention, and was ire
quently applauded. We give about one
half of the Grafton in this issue, and
will give the conclusion next week.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-04
Not Jealous.

ssThe general health of the city will compare IA
yorabIy with any city of its size in the State.
The future of jackson could not be more promis-
ing Nothing can keep place 50 much favored by
nature from taking prominent place among the
GREAT cities Of the land We venture the assertion
that no city in the South has few houses on the
doors of which are inscribed the legend For Rent"
We copy this from the Mississippi edi-
ton OF the Times-Democrat in reference
to jackson. 1t is truly complimentary
and is deserved. Our Capital is destined
to rank among the first cities of the land.
Forest Register.